pride

Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

n. A sense of one's own proper dignity or value; self-respect.

n. Pleasure or satisfaction taken in an achievement, possession, or association: parental pride.

n. Arrogant or disdainful conduct or treatment; haughtiness.

n. A cause or source of pleasure or satisfaction; the best of a group or class: These soldiers were their country's pride.

n. The most successful or thriving condition; prime: the pride of youth.

n. An excessively high opinion of oneself; conceit.

n. Mettle or spirit in horses.

n. A company of lions. See Synonyms at flock1.

n. A flamboyant or impressive group: a pride of acrobats.

transitive v. To indulge (oneself) in a feeling of pleasure or satisfaction: I pride myself on this beautiful garden.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

n. The quality or state of being proud; inordinate self-esteem; an unreasonable conceit of one's own superiority in talents, beauty, wealth, rank etc., which manifests itself in lofty airs, distance, reserve and often contempt of others.

n. A sense of one's own worth, and abhorrence of what is beneath or unworthy of one; lofty self-respect; noble self-esteem; elevation of character; dignified bearing; proud delight; -- in a good sense.

n. That of which one is proud; that which excites boasting or self-gratulation; the occasion or ground of self-esteem, or of arrogant and presumptuous confidence, as beauty, ornament, noble character, children etc.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

n. A small European lamprey (Petromyzon branchialis); -- called also prid, and sandpiper.

n. The quality or state of being proud; inordinate self-esteem; an unreasonable conceit of one's own superiority in talents, beauty, wealth, rank, etc., which manifests itself in lofty airs, distance, reserve, and often in contempt of others.

n. A sense of one's own worth, and abhorrence of what is beneath or unworthy of one; lofty self-respect; noble self-esteem; elevation of character; dignified bearing; proud delight; -- in a good sense.

n. That of which one is proud; that which excites boasting or self-gratulation; the occasion or ground of self-esteem, or of arrogant and presumptuous confidence, as beauty, ornament, noble character, children, etc.

n. Hence Lust; sexual desire; especially, the excitement of the sexual appetite in a female animal.

n. Wantonness; extravagance; excess; hence, impertinence; impudence.

n. That which is or may be a cause of pride; that of which men are proud.

n. Highest pitch; elevation; loftiness; the best or most admired part of a thing; the height; full force, extent, or quantity.

n. Decoration; ornament; beauty displayed; specifically, in heraldry, a term applicable to the peacock, turkey-cock, and other birds which spread their tails in a circular form, and drop their wings: as, a peacock in his pride.

Temperate men are not governed in their religious researches by the pride of peculiarity nor the influence of party views, and a faithful trial ought to have been made in order to convince of error before the charge of _pride of peculiarity_, or the influence of party views, could with propriety have been made.

Between Blackburn Hill and Enderly Road very little social intercourse existed and, as the Road people resented what they called the pride of Blackburn Hill, there was a good deal of bad feeling between the two districts.

Never mind if he were tired of her; never mind if she must humble what she called her pride, and plead with him to keep his word; never mind anything -- except this dreadful revelation: that no one of us may do that which, if done by all, would destroy society.

Mr Keating has long prided his record of bringing Budgets in on target . . .He prided his character and dignity over failure and temporary constraints.My husband prides us greatly.

These all strike me as errors. I will a little reluctanctly concede the grammaticality of pride in + gerund-participial clause, as in A liberal such as Sally Watson, who prided in, among her broad-minded accomplishments, having had a Puerto Rican husband and two black lovers. Even that I don't like. I might say it, but I would still strongly prefer prided herself on having. However, this appears to be a dialect difference.